Ebook: Grammaticization, synchronic variation, and language contact : a study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions
Author: Rena Torres Cacoullos
- Series: Studies in language companion series v. 52
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: J. Benjamins
- City: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
- Language: English
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This study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexico and New Mexico data develops a grammaticization account of variation in progressive constructions. Diachronic changes in cooccurrence patterns show that grammaticization involves reductive change driven by frequency increases. Formal reduction results in the emergence of auxilliary-plus-gerund sequences as fused units. Semantically, the constructions originate asRead more...